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President Barack Obama portrays himself as a hard worker who constantly rolls up his sleeves to help Americans amid the economic recession. But he’s spending more of his energy and time running for re-election than he’s devoting to the ordinary tasks of pushing back special interests that profitably clog government, curb personal freedom and constrict entrepreneurship. (RELATED: Full coverage of Barack Obama) Out on the stump, he’s animated, active and energetic. That’s where his extraordinary talents as a political campaigner show up on TV. It’s a different story inside Washington,

New Jersey --(Ammoland.com)- A friendly reminder about your event registration: American Legion Post 129 – 2025 Church Road – Toms River, NJ 840 Piney Hollow Road Winslow, NJ Date: 03 Dec 2011 7:00 PM EST You all know Evan Nappen as the Attorney who wrote the book on New Jersey Gun Laws. NJ Firearms owners have been relying upon the information in Evan’s book since the first edition. Gun Lawyer Evan Nappen Gun Lawyer Evan Nappen Evan will be talking about his book as well as current issues of concern to NJ Firearms owners. Most importantly, he has agreed to...

Act (FOIA) request by government watchdog group Judicial Watch suggest that the White House had direct involvement in shutting a transparency hearing to the press. “Please don’t have them reach out to any reporters before I clear [with White House] press,” wrote White House Deputy Associate Counsel Blake Roberts to the Office of Information Policy (OIP), about what should have been a fairly noncontroversial training session. The workshop was conducted by the OIP for Department of Justice employees on FOIA compliance procedures. Another email, from DOJ Press Release Deputy Director Gina Talamona to the OIP and the attorney general’s office,...

The regular monthly business meeting of Louisiana Open Carry Awareness League (aka LOCAL) will be held at 6:30pm on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 in the meeting room of the Shoneys Resturant on Hwy 51 near I-10 in Laplace, La. All LOCAL members and anyone interested in Open Carry are encouraged to attend. www.laopencarry.org

IT'S MY PARTY: The Democrats in the Senate are headed to President Obama's turf on Wednesday to talk with him about the deficit and, the White House says, other things. In guidance to reporters, the White House said that at the meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Obama and the "Senate Democratic Caucus" will cover "the range of important issues on the legislative agenda, including the need to adopt a balanced approach in confronting the nation’s long-term deficit challenges." The meeting is closed to the press..

Barack Obama kept military commanders hanging by declaring he would 'sleep on it' before taking 16 hours to give the go-ahead to raid Bin Laden's compound. Hit squads of specialist Navy Seals - who were not even told who they were preparing to capture - had practised the mission at two reconstructions of the terror chiefs sprawling compound. The mission looked set to be given the all clear last Thursday when analysts confirmed beyond doubt that Bin Laden was in busy town of Abbottabad in northern Pakistan.

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is convening an unprecedented mass meeting of U.S. ambassadors.</p>

Former President Bill Clinton is headed to the White House on Friday to meet with President Obama, an administration official confirmed to POLITICO.

President Obama and Republican Congressional leaders emerged from a high-profile, post-election meeting on Tuesday with gracious words and pledges of cooperation but no concrete agreements on the fiscal and national security issues that divide them. The two sides agreed to conduct negotiations over the next few days in search of a compromise on whether to extend the Bush-era tax cuts that expire in a month. “There must be some sensible common ground,” Mr. Obama said. Yet the two sides yielded nothing in their disagreement over whether the cuts should be extended across the board as Republicans insist or exclude income...

Some of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors met Tuesday afternoon with influential party figures such as AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, organizer Joan Fitz-Gerald and former White House aide Van Jones to discuss the lessons and implications of the GOP’s landslide midterm election victory. The meeting – organized by a group of wealthy, politically active liberals called the Democracy Alliance – took place at Washington’s swank Mandarin Oriental hotel, where off-duty police officers and other security patrolled the halls looking for reporters and other uninvited guests, who were escorted from the premises. "The agreement is that everything that goes on here...

Inside the Beltway, the conventional wisdom is that the White House meeting between President Barack Obama and the new Republican congressional leadership –rescheduled for Nov. 30 — is a big deal, an opportunity to reset the country on a better course. But the American people apparently see it mostly as a publicity stunt. They don’t think there is much chance anything will get done.

Obama Uses Teleprompter For A 10 Person Meeting Click here VIDEO

Ayalon to 'Post': "What I say is that if the Palestinians are not willing to talk about two states for two peoples, let alone a Jewish state for Israel, then there's nothing to talk about." NEW YORK -- Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad angrily left a UN Ad-Hoc Liaison Committee meeting and canceled a scheduled subsequent press conference with Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon in New York on Tuesday, after Ayalon refused to approve a summary of the meeting which said "two states" but did not include the words "two states for two peoples." "What I say is that if...

After getting frustrated out of the lemons his problems gave him, David Miller made his own corporate lemonade. Due to the frustration of always having to call technical support to solve his own frequent hardware problems, he started taking the initiative to educate himself.

The White House has sent out the list of attendees for the president's meeting with BP executives. Other than the president and vice president, the people from the administration were: energy/climate advisor Carol Browner, economics adviser Larry Summers, and the domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes. Along with those three officials were three lawyers: White House counsel Robert Bauer, White House lawyer Don Verrilli, and Tom Perrelli, the number-three official in the Justice Department. Adm. Thad Allen also attended. Missing from the list: Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who was singled out by the president in last night's speech for not doing...

MYFOXNY.COM - Things got heated at a community meeting on Staten Island where representatives from an Islamic group answered tough questions about their pending purchase of a former convent. When one man began shouting down another, the meeting's organizers shut down the event, the Staten Island Advance reported. The Archdiocese of New York has struck a deal to sell an unused property in the Midland Beach section of the borough to the Muslim American Society, which intends to turn it into a mosque and community center.

"Now, some of you heard I went to the [Senate] Republican Caucus today," President Obama told a receptive crowd at a fundraiser for Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel last night. “It was a warm and cuddly meeting," he joked. "The last time I appeared, it was before the House Republican Caucus, and we agreed to let the press in on that one. This one not so much." The crowd laughed. The meeting was cordial, attendees tell ABC News, though there were some tense moments. One Republican Senator told ABC News that he thought this meeting did...

I am much less interested in the recycled National Enquirer report of an Obama tryst with a mistress than I am with the question of when Barack Obama first met William Ayers. The estimable Ed Morrissey of Hot Air previews a new book that claims to have uncovered evidence that the two men met far earlier than the campaign's claimed date of 1995. Ed quotes the book's co-author Aaron Klein:

News Briefs: Meeting tonight on drive to opt out of health reformMarch 29, 2010 The groups Common Sense in Government, Livingston County 9-12 Group and Retake Our Gov will hold a town hall meeting today at the Howell High School Freshman Campus, 1400 W. Grand River Ave. in Howell. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will be an opportunity for those interested in learning more about the Michigan Health Care Freedom Amendment ballot initiative. Organizers of the effort want to let Michigan voters weigh in on whether the state should opt out of health reform. The groups are...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with US President Barack Obama Tuesday in Washington, Fox News reported Friday. The report has not yet been confirmed by official US or Israeli sources. In recent days Israel has made efforts to ensure that the two meet, following the diplomatic turmoil that ensued after construction plans were announced for east Jerusalem during a visit by the vice president. Details of the understandings reached between Israel and the United States over the building plans are slowly becoming clear. It seems Netanyahu will slow down planning of Jewish housing projects and construction tenders...

Today the White House--which has hosted everyone from the Dalai Lama to dinner party crashers--welcomes a group it never has before: non-believers. The Secular Coalition for America, a lobby group including atheists, humanists, nontheists and others, will meet with the Obama administration to discuss religious discrimination in government faith-based initiatives, military proselytizing and faith-healing. It's the first time in history such a group has been invited to talk policy with presidential officials. Obama was also the first president to mention nonbelievers in an inaugural address.

I don't understand why one group of our Lawmakers are meeting with the President to the exclusion of the rest of them regarding employment in the Black community. Do only white Lawmakers represent the 'whites' and black Lawmakers represent 'black' Americans?It makes me sick at the stomach to see how we are divided along skin color lines since this administration came to power.Am I wrong in my assessment?

[The following, by Tom Mountain, here in full, appears in this week's Jewish Advocate] The rabbis could barely contain their glee at meeting their president for the first time. Ignoring protocol, they crowded around him, hands outstretched, in a sincere, even loving attempt, to express their adulation. One rabbi grasped the president's hand, looked him in the eye, and said, "Mr. President, I believe that had history placed you in your special position during World War II, there would not have been a Holocaust." The president, visibly moved, was uncharacteristically speechless. Another rabbi, so overcome with emotion at standing in...

Click here for video from Obama's latest meeting to discuss the threat of terrorism.

Sebelius Says U.S. Will Donate Part of H1N1 Vaccine Supply to Foreign Nations Before Meeting This Nation’s DemandThursday, October 22, 2009 By Chris Neefus      ....... Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) asked Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebilius why the United States should get vaccinations ahead of people in other countries, including those in countries that are producing the vaccine for the United States. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)When Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) had his turn to question Sebelus, he raised the issue of whether the United States was "entitled" to the vaccine more than other nations. "Why should we be more entitled, the U.S. be more   entitled to...

It wasn't Seattle, circa 1999. That's when a meeting of the World Trade Organization, disrupted by massive riots, set the "standard" for anarchists everywhere. But Pittsburgh cheerleaders who welcomed last week's Group of 20 economic summit of world leaders didn't exactly get what they had wished for, either. The rah-rah crowd argued that Pittsburgh would be the beneficiary of wonderful media coverage by hosting the G-20. And, indeed, it received some glowing, chamber of commerce-like coverage in the buildup. It was a testament to the power of the public relations lie; supporters sold what's largely a Potemkin village as a...

The conflict with Iran is entering a new, more dangerous phase. Video of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad holding a meeting with high-level officials on June 13 in Qom has leaked out, giving us insight into how he sees the near future. “A new revolution has begun,” he says, as the Islamic Revolution finds its “true destiny” and enters a more difficult period. He speaks with genuine optimism and enthusiasm, and says it will not be limited to Iran. The tape clearly shows that Ahmadinejad believes that something has just changed that makes this moment in history special and directly related to Iran’s...

The push to raise Nevada's taxes in 2011 has already started, and NPRI is going to be there to give you the facts every step of the way. On Monday, Geoffrey Lawrence and I are going to be live blogging the meeting of the subcommittee that will conduct a review of Nevada's revenue structure — that's legislative speak for "subcommittee to try and figure out the best way to raise your taxes." The meeting starts at 9 a.m., and since it's a government meeting it could go all day. But we'll be sticking it out to the very end so...

(IsraelNN.com) Hareidi and national-religious rabbis will meet Monday in Jerusalem to discuss ways of dealing with the Arab influx into Jewish neighborhoods in northern Jerusalem, as well as the purchasing of agricultural land in the Galilee by wealthy foreign Arabs. The rabbis are expected to call for an end to the phenomenon of sale of land and houses by Jews to Arabs. The organizer, Aryeh King, who heads the Israel Lands Fund, told Arutz Sheva's Hebrew service that he is hoping to see the rabbis issue a pronouncement that sale of land and houses to Arabs is forbidden.

Not sure if I'm posting correctly, but this is just a little graphic I whipped up tonight. I have a decent idea about once a year or so! Feel free to grab it and reuse it! Click for much larger version.

Dan Maffei has another town hall meeting scheduled for Friday August 14 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM. The meeting will be held at his office located at 100 East Miller Street, Newark, NY. Click here for directions. There were no other details on his web page.

Senator Jim Demint to hold town hall meeting in the LowcountryRaymond Owens Published: August 7, 2009 U.S. Senator Jim Demint will be holding a town hall meeting on Daniel Island August 17th. The meeting is scheduled to take place at the Daniel Island Club. He is expected to take questions from the audience about the economy, health care and other issues. Senator Demint is also scheduled to talk to News 2 live on News 2 at 5:30 that evening. Then on Tuesday, August 18th, he will speak at the Charleston Rotary’s lunch. That takes place at 12:30 at the Citadel...

"Do you work for us or do we work for you?"

One click shopping - Health Care Bill Summary From Peter Fleckenstein Just a sample - PG 29 Line 4-16 YOUR HEALTHCARE IS RATIONED!!! Additionally you can reference PG 15 Line 19-25. PG 42 The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HealthCare Benefits for you. You have no choice! PG 59 Line 21-24 Government will have direct access to your banks accounts for electronic funds transfer! PG 62 Protection of Data, Government shows they will have database of your personal & financial info. PG 89 Line 6-10 The FAR is not applicable. Government can write contracts any way they want. PG...

PORTSMOUTH - A White House spokesperson confirmed Wednesday that President Barack Obama will be in Portsmouth on Aug. 11 to hold a town hall-style meeting on heath care. "I can confirm the president is heading to Portsmouth on Aug. 11," said Moira Mack, a White House spokesperson. "The details of the event have yet to be finalized." Obama held similar forums of health care reform in Bristol, Va. and Raliegh, N.C. last week. Mack said she does not know if the event will be in the city, but said it will be in the "Portsmouth area."

Reminder: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, 5th District, Missouri, will be holding his monthly "coffee." Here are the details: COFFEE with CLEAVER AUGUST 8, 2009 JP Coffee 3390 SW Fascination Dr. Lee's Summit, MO 8-10 AM

I'm looking for a list of government-run FUBARS in recent times and a brief , one sentence explanation of how it's a boondoggle. what came to mind was : AMTRAK - has never made money in a fiscal year ,ever. USPS- expecting a $70 billion deficit this year. MEDICAID MEDICARE SoSh Security

Speak out on health careFriday, July 31, 2009 Edition Published: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 3:40 PM CDT It’s generally accepted that some kind of health-care reform is needed. But what kind and when? Some on the right are leery about government mandates and public options and fear the possible cost to taxpayers—and the possibility of expanding the use of tax funds for abortions. Some on the left are concerned that the government is not actively considering a single-payer option but is instead choosing to work primarily through the current private-insurance system. The president, meanwhile, is warning that the current system...

The organized Jewish community's first official meeting with US President Barack Obama late Monday was set to include more liberal organizations than in years past, which groups on both sides saw as indicative of the White House's interest in magnifying their voices. The new J Street lobby and Americans for Peace Now made the final cut of a pared-down list that kept off traditional participants Zionist Organization of America, the Lubavitch movement and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, all of which are on the more conservative part of the spectrum. "They're looking to legitimize the more progressive parts...

Dr. Greg Dixon Pastor Salman Sets the Record Straight Ever since the Phoenix New Times News broke the story in their June 16th issue of the June 11 raid by the Phoenix Police Department on the Harvest Christian Fellowship Community Church, Pastor Salman and his congregation believe that there has been a continual stream of misconceptions and misrepresentations that needs to be set straight, and they are thankful that Freedom’s Phoenix has allowed them the opportunity to do so. First make no mistake. That was a full blown raid that took place that the Phoenix News reported with these words,...

Should Secretary of State Clinton be meeting with ousted Honduran President? A Daily Poll.

A much anticipated meeting Thursday in Paris between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US Mideast envoy George Mitchell has been canceled, The Jerusalem Post has learned. Defense Minister Ehud Barak will be going to the US on Monday to meet with Mitchell. It will be Barak's second visit to the US this month.

The meeting this week between Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak volumes as to where the United States will officially stand in relation to its long history of support for Israel. Perhaps we are now at a point and place in history where the United States will no longer reach back to the Bible in its understanding the miraculous fulfillment of prophecy that occurred.

The global financial crisis will dominate the agenda at this week's Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, which also serves as U.S. President Barack Obama's coming-out party in the region. After eight years of George W. Bush, there is excitement among the 33 heads of state and government, most of whom are meeting Mr. Obama for the first time, as well as hope for a new era of civility and co-operation. While Latin America hasn't been as badly affected by the recession as Canada, the United States and Europe, the region needs renewed investments and capital loans. “Latin America's financial...

Reminder: Saddleback Valley Conservatives & FReepers meeting is tomorrow, Wednesday, April 1st, 6:00 PM Location: Rancho Santa Margarita Ford 30031 Santa Margarita Pkwy. 92688 Time: 6:00PM-7:30PM Guest speakers: Keynote: John Williams, Trustee, South Orange County Community College District John will be speaking to us about several current issues in the South OC colleges, and will be taking your questions. Guest: Lyman Stucky Conservative activist Lyman Stucky will be speaking about the following: -Tools and strategies to get corrupt politicians and judges out of office -Tools to fight the teachers unions -Fighting for principles in the GOP Be sure to...

(IsraelNN.com) British MP George Galloway met on Wednesday with Ismail Haniyeh, chief of the Hamas-led PA of Gaza, the Associated Press reports. The location of the meeting was undisclosed. In addition, Haniyeh’s office claims that the meeting actually took place on Tuesday. Haniyeh has tried to conceal his movement ever since the IDF began Operation ‘Cast Lead’ against Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

The joint media availability in the White House Rose Garden was dropped Monday because the nation's capital was blanketed in snow, but administration officials didn't explain why the event was not moved inside, The Times of London reported Tuesday.

For example, Dr Eugenie Scott of the staunchly anticreationist National Center for Science Education (NCSE) revealed their agenda when she said: “ … I would describe myself as a humanist or a nontheist. I have found that the most effective allies for evolution are people of the faith community. One clergyman with a backward collar is worth two biologists at a school board meeting any day! … What we [such clergy and atheists] have in common is that we want to see evolution taught in the public schools … .”4

Goldman Sachs Group Inc denied a CNBC television report on Thursday that it had convened an "emergency" meeting of top investors earlier this week, prompted by worries Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's bank rescue plan was not viable. A Goldman spokesman said the bank invited 30 private equity and hedge fund firms to a dinner Tuesday, a routine gathering for investment banking clients.

The Merritt Island Chapter of ACT! for America monthly meeting is this Thursday (2/12/2009) at the Merritt Island Public Library in the Auditorium at 7:00 PM till 8:30 PM. Lee Boyland will be chairing this meeting, and will be presenting very pertinent information to you, including showing the controversial video that PBS refused to show (but Fox News Channel did show) "Islam vs. Islamists", an intriguing look into the real intentions of Islamists, and why the "moderate" faction of Islam does not/can not do more to counter their radical elements. The film follows moderate Muslims who have challenged the "Islamists"...